Thread: False Lucid Dreams continued.

Quote "Naiya":Everyone, please take a look at this sticky which explains misconceptions about lucidity and the so-called false lucidity.

To clarify--the ONLY requirement for a lucid dream is knowing you're dreaming. If you blindly follow the dream plot, or you don't think very clearly, or you don't have control, or you dream in the third person (as in watching it like a movie), this doesn't mean that you had some sort of "false" lucid--you just had a low quality lucid dream. Your clarity of thought and control will get better with practice." ..endquote

Lucidity is very often fleeting. You can realise you're dreaming but within seconds you can forget again. These so-called "false lucid dreams" appear to me to be just a few seconds of lucidity followed by a slip back into non-lucidity. Very common. A burst of lucidity that wanes almost as soon as it appears... trouble is, on the anecdotal evidence on this site, nobody seems to recognise this common effect.

Quote "Naiya": "Please stop perpetuating this misinformation."

Quote: "Akono": "My thoughts exactly. This thread closed, like the ones before it."

Quote: "thomulf"- "By the way- I love the way the dreaming hasn't been explored yet and the only evidence we have are our own experiences- it makes us the experts without any preparation at all!"

I don't know how long this post will stay on the forum after I say what I am about to say, but I feel that it needs to be said. There is a somewhat worrying development that has affected several LDing sites, namely that if one questions the status quo of belief on the particular site, one finds oneself confronted by a sort of in-house thought police who make it clear that if one doesn't conform to the site credo, one is not made very welcome. Such restriction of thought is extremely unhealthy, is deleterious to progress and leads to dogma, in my opinion. Whoever moderates the moderators (?) should have a think about that.